NASA scrub promise to land the first woman, first person of color on the moon from the web pages
The campaign of the President of the United States Donald Trump to eliminate the efforts and language of diversity from government organizations officially reached the moon, with NASA who canceled references to his promise to land the first woman and the first person of color on the lunar surface from different web pages, citing Trump.
The space agency promised five years ago that its Artemis program would have achieved both goals, also putting the first non -American astronaut on the moon.
But the references have recently been stripped of the NASA website.
Recently on March 14, the main page of the Artemis program said: “NASA will land the first woman, the first person of color and the first international partner on the moon using innovative technologies to explore more lunar surface than ever” Snapshot taken from the Wayback machinean Internet archive.
By March 16, that sentence had disappeared.
The space agency has also eliminated a page, also preserved On the way of waybackBy advertising a 2023 graphic novel inspired by Artemis missions, which told an imaginary story about the first woman on the moon.
Elsewhere on the NASA website, the language is still there – a 2023 item Information on the Artemis III mission states that “the first woman and the first person of color” on the lunar surface will land.
When asked about these removals, the space agency confirmed that they were due to Trump, that Executive orders issued Against diversity, equity and inclusion efforts (gods) in January.
“In accordance with an executive order signed by President Trump, NASA is updating its language to better reflect the main mission of the Artemis campaign: to return the astronauts on the lunar surface. The NASA remains committed to aligning itself with the guidance of the White House and guaranteeing the success of the mission,” said a spokesperson in a declaration of news of the CBC.
He added “the change of language does not indicate a change in the crew positions”.
The revisions on the website come in the midst of a wave of companies and government organizations that eliminate the programs of and the censorship of language that seems to celebrate diversity. Trump referred to these programs, which historically aimed to correct inequalities in hiring, as “discrimination”.
NASA, which is an US government agency, according to what reported has been instructed to close the offices associated with the gods and accessibility in late January, according to Space.com.
The Artemis program takes its name from Apollo’s twin sister, the Greek god who provided the name for the first lunar missions.
A total of 24 people were on the moon, all white and American, 12 of whom walked on the surface. Nobody has set foot on the lunar surface since 1972, when the astronaut of NASA Eugene Cernan finished the last Apollo mission.
NASA had initially planned to land on the moon with Artemis III by 2024, but that mission has been delayed and is now not scheduled for 2026.
The crew for Artemis II, which is expected to orbit the moon next year without landing, is composed of Astronauts of NASA Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, as well as the Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen.
